Charlie, we too saw less birds this year. Last year was a bit better, but it wasn't a barn burner. After giving it a rest for one day and benefiting from a warming spell, we were disappointed to see only a few last evening. Four of us shot only 7.
The rattler was air dried and will be ground up and sprinkled on food. One of my worker's dad belongs to the old Mexico belief that it will cure cancer and aids. He has neither and intends to play it safe with periodic ingestion of dried snake.
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